Pre-assessment Health Care Support Worker

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to fill our band 3 Health Care Support Worker role within the Pre-assessment service based in the Princess of Wales Hospital.

This role is an exciting opportunity to support the Pre-assessment unit in delivery of Pre-operative patient care and patient flow within the Pre-Assessment service.

The Pre-assessment unit a fast paced ever changing nurse led service, where patients are assessed for fitness for a anaesthetic.

We are looking for an individual who is educated to an NVQ Level 3 or equivalent, with in-depth knowledge of health care settings, excellent communication skills and is able to work without direct supervision.

Main duties of the job

This role will require candidates to have in-depth knowledge and skills of working within a hospital outpatient setting, and possess the necessary skills to carry out ECG's, Venepuncture, MRSA screening and vital signs. You will also need to be able to recognise and report signs of patient distress and abnormal vital signs.

You will also need to proficient in using WCP, WPAS, Email and Microsoft systems, along with previous experience in tracking notes within the UHB site library.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.

Person specification

Qualifications

• NVQ/ Diploma Level 3 or equivalent
• Phlebotomy training and competence
• ECG Training and competence

• NVQ/ Diploma Level 4

Experience

• Worked within a wide variety of health care settings
• Recording and reporting on vital signs
• Recording ECG's
• Taking bloods

• Experience of working in Pre-assessment or outpatient department.

Aptitude & abilities

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• IT literate
• Able to work as part of a team and unsupervised
• Empathetic and Understanding
• Able to organise and prioritise time.
• Able to maintain accurate legible records

• Welsh speaker

Values

• Caring and compassionate
• Confident and competent
• Adopts to change in line with service requirements
• Able to travel across the HB in a timely manner when required
• Flexible approach to working

If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.